The Register reports that a study by the National Literacy Trust states :
By the age of 34, "68 per cent of men and 70 per cent of women with good literacy skills are co-habiting or married, compared to 52 per cent of men and 60 per cent of women who find it difficult".

And finally, a mere 50 per cent of the literacy-challenged say they're “satisfied ( Read more... )

I was reading an old White Dwarf today, and discovered the following passage of alien anal rape from Ian Watson's Deathwing.A coccyx of bleached bone jutted into space, bearing the sphincter at its tip like a quartet of triangular haemorrhoids clutched within bands of livid muscle. Where the heads of these scarlet protuberances touched, a tiny hole ( Read more... )

Passed on from divalano (who has an entry :) ), go and vote on which images you most appreciate, and at the same time help select the charity to whom the proceeds of the book will be passed on to. You could almost say that you're being socially responsible while looking at porn. At least that's what I told my girlfriend!

It's Friday, so I had fish and chips for Tea.

seraphs_folly gave me some money to buy myself some whiskey for my birthday over here (even though she said she'd already bought me a pressie!), so this evening when picking up milk and bread from the local Waitrose I thought I'd check out their liquor section on the off-chance, not expecting much, and OMG ( Read more... )

elfs brought up the fact it was National Pornography Awareness Week in the US.

I thought "Oooh! almost missed it!", and clicked on the link thinking to find a site run by the porn industry promoting it. I was dissappointed.

Does that make me a bad man?

The good news from my returning from India is that I have lost weight. I proved this today by being able to do up the top button on my purple Lip Service PVC pants for the first time. Admittedly, my spare tire still bulges out around the top in an unappealing way, and they are still far too tight to actual wear out anywhere, but getting all the ( Read more... )